Marriott Faces $124 Million Fine From U.K. for Data Hacking July 9, 2019 By Patrick Clark and Jonathan Browning The massive hacking of Marriott International Inc. reservation databases could lead to a 99 million-pound ($124 million) fine as the...
Facebook Must Face Lawsuit Over 29 Million-User Data Breach June 24, 2019 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Aoife White Facebook Inc. failed to fend off a lawsuit over a data breach that affected nearly 30 million users, one of...
Watchdog Says FEMA Wrongly Released Survivors’ Personal Information March 26, 2019 By Colleen Long WASHINGTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency wrongly released to a contractor the personal information of 2.3 million survivors of...
50 Restaurants, Hotels Across Arizona Hit with Data Breach February 20, 2019 A data breach may have compromised the personal information of customers who patronized any of 50 Arizona businesses last month....
Marriott CFO Says $1B Cyber Breach Estimate Premature December 6, 2018 By Patrick Clark It’s too soon for Marriott International Inc. to estimate the cost of the massive cyber breach that the company disclosed...
Starwood Points at Risk in Marriott Hack December 4, 2018 By Jenny Surane and Katherine Chiglinsky It’s not just your credit card number that hackers want anymore. It’s your points. Marriott International Inc.’s disclosure on Friday...
Arizona Professor Explains How Hacking Evolved to Data Theft July 13, 2018 As data breaches continue to be reported, Adam DoupĂ©, assistant professor of engineering and associate director of Arizona State University’s...
European Data Privacy – What’s Changing Under New Data Privacy Rules May 23, 2018 By ANICK JESDANUN Europe’s new data and privacy rules take effect this Friday, clarifying individual rights to the personal data collected by companies...
HSB: A Third of U.S. Consumers Have Been Notified of a Data Breach March 27, 2018 About one-third of U.S. consumers (34 percent) have been notified that their data has been breached, according to a survey...
Equifax Hack Breach Exposed More Data Than Consumers Knew February 12, 2018 By SARAH SKIDMORE SELL The Equifax data breach exposed more of consumers’ personal information than the company first disclosed last year, according to documents...